Up the Pictures

Chronologically, UP THE PICTURES follows on from Peter Lawrence and Chris Trengove's first book, IT'S YOUR MONEY IN MY POCKET, DEAR, NOT MINE IN YOURS, and like its predecessor is an uproarious take on London life in the early seventies. Under the title ENGULFED IN A TIDE OF FILTH, it was first published by Quartet in 1975. Originally described as "a Technicolor nightmare of red revolution, black liberation, blue photographs and the ever-threatening brown tide," UP THE PICTURES takes a hilarious and sometimes surreal look at a long-lost era when politics was more than just the bland leading the bland, and features a cast of characters that ranges from the deluded to the demented. Loony left or rabid right, they’re off the wall, out of left field… and up the pictures.